Originally by: Lluthiunne Atalaron

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Been saying that for years.
You can't smoke till your 16, drink until you are 18
but you can legally have a child at 16.

So let me get this straight bringing another life into this world at 16 = okay
Having a drink in a bar at the same age NO


I do not believe that children should be granted only to the privaleged. But I feel there is something seriously wrong with our culture when girls are leaving school and immediately begin work on their litter.
It is almost as if they have left school and see no possible future for themselves. Lost and completely dispondent they have children. True these children aren't planned but they aren't prevented either.

That is their life now there kids to be, I think this gives them a sense of purpose.

But who here can say at 16 they knew anything, only the dillusional.
I would like to think of myself as a particulary well adjusted 16 year old, but in hindsight I knew absolutely nothing, and I have no doubt I will look back on my life in 20years and say the same thing about my 26 year old self.

It is a vicious cycle which imho is degenerating our culture. These kids don't stand a chance and neither will there kids.
Of course there is always the exception.


Before I bought the house im currently living in I lived in a small tenement flat. Begining my current career I scratched away coming back each night to my crummy flat. In the flat above me lived a mother and her 6 children there was no man. Well unless you count the different guys coming and going from the flat every other week.
I'd see a guy stagger up the stairs with a bottle under each arm and disappear into the flat. Amongst the din of crying kids and shouting I could hear things all sorts of things that would make your blood boil and your skin crawl.

3 years I lived at that address, I can tell you that there wasn't a day gone by that i didnt want to hurl that awful excuse for a mother from her balcony. I felt so sorry for those kids, but then in 20 years time they will most likely be doing the same thing and i'd hate them all the same.

My nonreligious great grandmother said to me after I told her of how angry I was.
'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone'
This and a whole truckload of self restraint kept my mouth shut.

lol, the wheel had fallen of one of the buggies it had been repaired by attaching some sort of Tonka truck wheel to it.
I kid you not!
She couldn't afford to fix a buggy, but she had 'just' enough for her morning liquid breakfast and her weekend escapades.


lol sorry guys, eve forums a great place to vent your deamons

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